The Vega started to get larger, like many compact cars of the era, and would no longer fit into the railcar. The Vega had been build around this method of transportation. Everything in the car was designed so the car could be stood vertically. The shipping equipment was on Trailer Train flat cars. Once the rail cars were no longer useful, the railroads would have scrapped the shipping equipment so the railcar lease with Trailer Train could be terminated.
As I recall there were four hooks that either went around the axle housing, or attached to something on the axle housing. Once the cars were driven up on the door, someone had to apply the hooks. Then the custom made forklift lifted the door. There were a few cars that came unhooked in transit. When the door was lowered, the car just sat there on its nose. They would get a chain around the rear axle and give it a pull. Down the car would come with a bang and then off it went to the scrap yard. As far as the road names, these were pool cars. Once the railroad that the assembly plant was located on determined the number of cars needed for the service, each railroad that handled the traffic would have to buy its share of cars, based of its proportion of the revenue. Usually the shipping road managed the car buy and the other railroads getting the cars only input would be how their cars would be painted. It was the same arrangement for maintenance.
I was trying to remember where the Vega was made, it might have been Loraine, Ohio.
